Quotes
January 29, 2020 0 Comments

#Iamthestorm

Wouldn’t you rather be a storm than a wave? ‘Let it go,’ says Rebecca Plume who fiercely recommends embracing your entire menstrual cycle, including the emotional outbursts caused by hormones. (…)

Art
January 22, 2020 0 Comments

Super plus cute

How to smash the menstrual taboo in a super plus cute way? American stop-motion animation artist Annie Wong created Ovary Actions: a colourful series of animation GIFs that are all about menstruation. (…)

Quotes
January 15, 2020 0 Comments

Stop financially punishing my vagina!

‘Hey health minister, stop financially punishing me for having a vagina. Instead, you should be paying for my pads.’ – a guest blog, and a statement against the tampon tax in Northern Ireland, by Amy Aylmer. (…)

Art
November 26, 2019 0 Comments

Beauty in blood

‘Do you consider what you see pretty or ugly?’ Visual artist Jen Lewis invites people to look at menstruation in a different way with her series Beauty in Blood. (…)

Quotes
November 4, 2019 0 Comments

Book review: Seeing Red

Women’s health expert Kirsten Karchmer has written Seeing Red, a book about how to fix menstrual suffering by making changes in your nutrition, lifestyle and mindset. (…)

Global
September 10, 2019 0 Comments

Peculiar prejudices

Menstrual blood has the power to destroy enemies, and the touch of a menstruating woman causes a mirror to lose its brightness… There are some very strange prejudices, myths and taboos about periods. (…)

Culture
September 6, 2019 0 Comments

She said period!

The American actress Courteney Cox (Monica Geller in the television series Friends) was the first person to use the word period on screen in a TV commercial for Tampax. We’re talking about the year 1985. Now she’s going viral with a parody. (…)

Quotes
August 8, 2019 1 Comment

Period. Let its vastness be undisguised

‘How can you stop something that is so flowing. That feels so real?’ We proudly present a breathtaking and striking period poem by Dutch Christel Janssen, about passing on period shame. Generation after generation. (…)

Quotes
July 28, 2019 0 Comments

Period Talk (3)

Every month, Mariette Reineke and Naomi van Ree talk about their menstruation. Today’s theme: the Dutch word for being on your period. ‘Ongesteld’. Meaning ‘not well.’ Do we need to ditch this eufemism? What’s your opinion? (…)